Have Horn, Will Travel: The Life and Music of Herman “Junior” Cook
“This book is much more than a biography. It’s a narrative journey into the life of one of our great saxophone warriors, written by a saxophonist who travels back in time to find him.”—Su Terry, author of Music and the 7 Hermetic Principles
In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of José Chávez y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio Salazar
“We now have the much-needed coverage of Hispanic participation in the Billy the Kid, Lincoln County, and New Mexico story. No one previously has given us this kind of book. In the Days of Billy the Kid may be considered sui generis—one of a kind.”—Richard W. Etulain, author of Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid and Billy the Kid: A Reader’s Guide
The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona's National Treasure
“This is more than a book about one theater; it is a book that touches on the history of variety theaters in the West. I have never seen anything like it.”—Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life behind the Legend
Frontera Freeways: Highway Building and Displacement in El Paso, Texas
“There is little literature on highway construction and displacement and activism against them along major US cities near the US-Mexican border. Juárez does a masterful job bringing history alive! The writing is succinct, informative, and engaging.”—Erualdo R. González, author of Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots
Outer Stars
“Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is a master storyteller, and Outer Stars is a mesmerizing, deeply felt collection about the necessity of human connection and the acceptance of those things we can’t change.” —Andrew Porter, author of The Disappeared
Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
“Robert E. Howard is worth reading whether you are a fan of Howard’s writing, wish to learn of the realities of the pulp fiction industry, or are interested in exploring life in 1920s Texas. Magnificently researched and engagingly written, it will capture readers.”-Ricochet
About the UNT Press
The University of North Texas Press was founded in 1987 and published its first book in 1989. Though we are the newest university press in North Texas (following SMU Press and TCU Press), we have quickly become a leading press with the most titles in print and published (approximately 20-25 each year). We are fully accredited members of the Association of University Presses. Our books are distributed and marketed nationally and internationally through the Texas A&M University Press Consortium.New & Forthcoming Titles
Newly Published:
“In BASTION BY THE BAY, historian John P. Langellier reminds us why the Presidio of San Francisco, California, is not only one of America’s most significant Army posts but also a world landmark to the settlement of North America. A must read for scholars and students of the American West.”—Stuart Rosebrook, editor-at-large, True West magazine
I’M ALIVE “For the family of A-8 pilots (or any pilots) who served in the Vietnam War, I’m Alive is of great significance. It is a candid reflection of an A-8 pilot during the early years of the air war in Vietnam. It will appeal to the family of fighter pilots who flew in the war, Vietnam War veterans, and the casual Vietnam War reader.”—Ronald B. Frankum Jr., author of Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964–1975
OTHER EDENS “What is outside the garden of Eden? Genesis tells us it’s the sweat of our labor on a hard and hot land full of weeds and thorns. But what if, as Ash Bowen’s title wonders, there are Other Edens? This is poetry akin to Johnny Cash and Buddy Moss, Tom Waits and Jason Isbell—ruin songs of the hard-luck and every kind of hurt, the ones whom hope seems to have abandoned—out of which a keen and human voice calls into the dark. It found my heart. It will find yours too.”—Philip Metres, judge and author of Fugitive/Refuge
New in paperback!
THE REEL THRILLING EVENTS OF BANK ROBBER HENRY STARR “Archuleta’s biography of Henry Starr, one of the most prolific bank robbers in the nation’s history, will transport you to a time when the Wild West of myth and reality collided”—Michael Wallis, author of Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
